Nocturne (Masterplots: Revised Category Edition, British Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Swinnerton
- First Published: 1917
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic romance
- Time of Work: Twentieth century
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Jenny Blanchard, Emmy Blanchard, Pa Blanchard, Alf Rylett, Keith Redington
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Emotions, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, England or English people, Fathers, Sisters, London, Sick persons, Loneliness, Happiness, Hats
- Locales: London, England
The Story:
At six o’clock one afternoon, Jenny Blanchard, a milliner’s assistant, returned on the tram from her place of work in London’s West End to her home in Kennington Park, a suburb south of the Thames River. As the tram passed over the dark Thames, she felt a sense of great unhappiness and frustration; but the mysterious quality of her reflection in the tram window gave her momentary satisfaction.
The Blanchard house was one of a row of identical houses in Kennington Park. There Jenny and her sister Emmy took care of their semi-invalid father, who lived on a...
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